か

か in Hiragana or カ in Katakana is two kana, characters Japanese, which represent same the more. They are marked and occupy the 6th place of their respective spelling-book, between お and き.

Origin

The hiragana か and the katakana カ come, via the Man' yōgana, of the Kanji 加.

Diacritic

か and カ can be diacrities to form が and ガ and to represent the sound.

Romanisation

According to the systems of romanisation Hepburn, Kunrei and Nihon, か and カ romanisent themselves in “ka” and が and ガ in “ga”.

Layout

The hiragana か is written in three features:
  1. Milks horizontal, from left to right, then vertical and slightly curved towards the left, finished by a diagonal hook upwards and from right to left.
  2. Milks diagonal from top to bottom and from right to left, cutting the first feature.
  3. Milks diagonal with the right-hand side of both first, slightly curved.

The katakana カ is written in two features:

  1. Milks horizontal, from left to right, then diagonal from top to bottom and from right to left, finished by a diagonal hook upwards and from right to left.
  2. Milks diagonal from top to bottom and from right to left, cutting the first feature.

Data-processing representation

  • Unicode :
    • か : U+304B
    • カ : U+30AB
    • が : U+304C
    • ガ : U+30AC

See too

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